INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.4.x
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+- wxDocManager::GetNoHistoryFiles() renamed to GetHistoryFilesCount()
+
OTHER CHANGES
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- wxStopWatch::Start() resumes the stop watch if paused, as per the docs
- added wxDirTraverser::OnOpenError() to customize the error handling
- added wxArray::SetCount()
+- wxFile, wxFFile, wxTextFile and wxTempFile now all use UTF-8 encoding
+ by default in Unicode mode
+- bug in wxDateTime with timezones on systems with tm_gmtoff in struct tm fixed
+- added wx/math.h (John Labenski)
+- added Catalan translations (Pau Bosch i Crespo)
+- added Ukrainian translations (Eugene Manko)
+- fixed bug with deleting entries at root level in wxFileConfig
wxBase:
- added Watcom makefiles
+- fixed bug with searching in sorted arrays (Jürgen Palm)
All GUI ports:
-- added wxSplitterWindow handler to XRC
+- added alpha channel support to wxImage
+- added wxCLOSE_BOX style for dialogs and frames
+- added wxSplitterWindow and wxWizard handlers to XRC
+- added proportion to wxFlexGridSizer::AddGrowableRow/Col (Maxim Babitski)
- added wxFlexGridSizer::SetFlexibleDirection() (Szczepan Holyszewski)
- implemented GetEditControl for wxGenericTreeCtrl (Peter Stieber)
- improved contrib/utils/convertrc parsing (David J. Cooke)
- implemented alignment for wxGrid bool editor and renderer
- support wxListCtrl columns alignment for all platforms and not just MSW
- added wxToolBar Add/InsertTool(tool) (Janusz Piwowarski)
+- fixed user dash handling for MSW and GTK (Ken Edwards)
- WXR resources can now be used in Unicode builds
-
-- Changed to type-safe wxSizerItemList for wxSizer child items.
-
+- it is now possible to use several wxFileHistory objects in the same menu
+ by giving them different base IDs (Dimitri Schoolwerth)
+- changed to type-safe wxSizerItemList for wxSizer child items
Deprecated:
-
wxSizer::Remove( wxWindow* )
- it does not function as Remove would usually be expected to
- and destroy the window, use Detach instead.
-
+ and destroy the window, use Detach instead
wxSizer::GetOption(),
wxSizer::SetOption()
- wxSizer 'option' parameter was renamed 'proportion' to better
- reflect its action, use Get/SetProportion instead.
-
+ reflect its action, use Get/SetProportion instead
wxKeyEvent::KeyCode()
- - use GetKeyCode instead.
-
+ - use GetKeyCode instead
wxList:: Number, First, Last, Nth
- - use typesafe GetCount, GetFirst, GetLast, Item instead.
-
+ - use typesafe GetCount, GetFirst, GetLast, Item instead
wxNode:: Next, Previous, Data
- - use typesafe Get* instead.
-
+ - use typesafe Get* instead
wxListBase::operator wxList&()
- - use typesafe lists instead.
+ - use typesafe lists instead
+- Added wxTLW::SetShape with implementations for wxMSW and wxGTK (so
+ far)
+- FL: rmoved const from EnableTool parameters
+- FL: signal child window when toolbar is closed
+- In various places, changed tests for pathsep on last char of string to call
+ wxEndsWithPathSeparator(s)
+- Added to defs.h a couple of macros (wxPtrToULong & wxULongToPtr)
+- Minor improvements to document/view framework, including
+ delayed deletion of a document (until after the user has chosen
+ a new document), and more intelligent addition of filenames to
+ the file history, including not adding filenames if not using the
+ default extension for the template
+- Speeded up wxImage::Scale using fixed point arithmetic (Wade Brainerd)
+- Added BLOB support to wxDB (John Skiff)
+- Wizard now validates as well as doing data transfer when
+ pressing Back or Next
+- Implemented wxNotebook::DoGetBestSize so Fit now works
Unix:
- fixed compilation on systems with zlib installed but < 1.1.3 version
- fixed compilation on Solaris 7 with large files support enabled
+- added wxTaskBarIcon implementation for X11
wxGTK:
+- added support for label mnemonics to GTK+2 build (Michael Moss)
+- added native wxMessageDialog implementation for GTK+2 build
- fixed wxMenu::Remove (John Skiff and Benjamin Williams)
- made wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress() work for Delete and Backspace
- fixed wxTopLevelWindow::ShowFullScreen to work with kwin, IceWM and
window managers that support _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN
+- added wxEVT_MENU_OPEN event generation
+- fixed bug in generic file selector causing incomplete file extensions to
+ be appended to filenames with no extension
+- added SetSelection implementation for GTK+ 2
wxMSW:
- fixes for compilation with OpenWatcom compiler
- fixed wxStaticText best size calculation (was wrong by '&' width)
- fixed calling wxFrame::Maximize(FALSE) before the window is shown
+- all libraries built with makefile.g95 have a _min or _cyg suffix
+ (for MinGW and Cygwin)
+- When using DLL, wxLocalFSHandler was not being exported - added
+ WXEXPORTDLL
+- A wxEvtHandler object was not removed from wxPendingEvents on deletion.
+ wxPendingEventsLocker was being deleted in App before all wxEvtHandler
+ objects have been destroyed resulting in stale handler/lock
+ ptrs; fixed
+- Windows XP manifest is now included in wx.rc; it is no longer neccessary
+ to ship .exe.manifest file with applications to support XP themes
+- wxLocale::Init no longer reports error if trying to set Unicode-only locale
+ or if user's default locale is Unicode-only
+- Improved border handling so it no longer shows a thin and
+ sunken border under XP
+- partial fix for wxNotebook pages looking bad under XP: wxUSE_UXTHEME
+ enables XP theme engine code, and wxUSE_UXTHEME_AUTO tells
+ wxWindows to use the theme tab colour for control backgrounds.
+ Proper XP theme support is planned for 2.6
+- disable wxNB_RIGHT, wxNB_LEFT, wxNB_BOTTOM notebook styles
+ if the version of CommCtl doesn't support it (XP)
-wxMotif
+wxMotif:
- made wxFileDialog behaviour with complex wildcards more sensible (it still
does not support all the features other ports do); refer to wxFileDialog
xmcombo; xmcombo is still used for Motif 1.x and Lesstif when compiled
with Motif 1.x compatibility
- implemented wxToggleButton
+- wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox now use the default shadow (border) style
+ instead of a sunken border
+- implemented wxBitmapDataObject
+- finished wxClipboard implementation
+
+wxUniv:
+
+- controls in toolbars now supported
+
+wxHTML:
+
+- added text selection to wxHtmlWindow
+- added SetFonts to HTML printing classes (Adrian Philip Look)
+- it is now possible to force page break when printing by inserting
+ <div style="page-break-before:always"> into the markup (Greg Chicares)
+- wxHtmlWindow now uses double buffering to prevent flicker
+
OLD CHANGES
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